国家地理2004一月篇

国家地理2004一月篇

January 1, 2004
　　Earth’s moon
　　1972
　　Unknown (NASA)
　　
　　“An Apollo 17 astronaut examines enormous lunar boulders resting in a crater at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.“

　　Adirondack State Park, New York
　　1997
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　A hardy cross-country skier and his dog cross frozen Lake Colden, accessible only by hiking trail even in warmer months.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Adirondack High, June 1998, National Geographic magazine

January 3, 2004
　　
　　Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
　　1998
　　Michael S. Yamashita
　　
　　Women swaddled against the sun paddle ocean water into ponds where it will evaporate, leaving salt behind. Plans call for increasing such production by half, so Vietnam can have a new export.
　　
　　—From South China Sea: Crossroads of Asia, December 1998, National Geographic magazine
　　

January 4, 2004
　　Yar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
　　1996
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　At the annual spring festival at Yar Sale the Nenets test their reindeer‘s mettle with team racing. Soon the animals‘ homing instincts will be tested, as the deer follow ancient migration routes to the pastures of the far north—there to fatten until fall snows prompt them to return south.
　　
　　—From Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra, March 1998, National Geographic magazine
　　

January 5, 2004
　　Washington State, United States
　　Early 1900s
　　Edward S. Curtis
　　
　　‘A great mark of buty,‘ the flattened foreheads [as shown on this Wisham Indian] of the Pacific Northwest and other tribes west of the Rockies earned them the collective name Flatheads. The effect was achieved, [19th-century explorer Meriwether] Lewis explained, .?.?.?‘by compressing the head between two boards while in a State of infancy. .?.?.?#039
　　
　　—Text from the National Geographic book Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998
　　

January 6, 2004
　　Littleton Island, near Greenland
　　1925
　　Donald B. MacMillan
　　
　　Eight exposures on the same photographic plate, made at 20-minute intervals, capture the midnight sun over Littleton Island near Greenland.

January 7, 2004
　　In Earth‘s orbit
　　1973
　　Unknown (NASA)
　　
　　Skylab, the United States‘ first manned orbiting laboratory, amassed a wealth of information about the universe.
　　

January 8, 2004
　　Bovanenkovo, Siberia, Russia
　　1996
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　This young Nenets man has come into Bovanenkovo to trade with Russian workers. Bovanenkovo sits atop a huge natural gas field. Employees of the Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom have settled here, adjacent to the Nenets‘ summer pastureland.
　　
　　(Text adapted from Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra, March 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra, March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

January 9, 2004
　　Adirondack Mountains, New York
　　1996
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Water mirrors a fiery twilight sky above an Adirondack lake.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Adirondack High, June 1998, National Geographic magazine

January 10, 2004
　　Near Chicago, Illinois
　　1907
　　Gilbert H. Grosvenor
　　
　　Octave Chanute, a 19th-century American aviation pioneer, designed the multiwinged Katydid glider.
　　

January 11, 2004
　　Bombay (Mumbai), India
　　1997
　　Robb Kendrick
　　
　　A pipeline carrying water to a wealthier suburb of Bombay stretches through a part of town where poor residents must share public spigots.

January 12, 2004
　　Kaikoura Canyon, New Zealand
　　1997
　　Maria Stenzel
　　
　　Gliding through luminous seas, a dusky dolphin patrols the top layer of New Zealand‘s teeming Kaikoura Canyon.  
　　
　　—From Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon, June 1998, National Geographic magazine